Regrets: Agathe (1985)
Entirely slept-on, to the point that it still boggles my mind how with all the recent reissues and rediscoveries of artists like…
August 25, 2017
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Paolo Modugno: Le Bala Et La Mouche (1994)
Man, what a world to we live in. Just this year Italy’s Archeo Recordings reissued Paolo Modugno’s intriguing debut Brise D’Automne. Once…
August 23, 2017
Joachim Witt: Moonlight Nights (1985)
If anyone knows me, they’d know this album forms a perfect storm of what I dig about music. I love it when…
August 18, 2017
Triangulus and Björn J:son Lindh: Triangulus and Björn J:son Lindh (1986)
Hard to describe what’s going on in Triangulus and Björn J:son Lindh. The closest analog I could think of would be what…
August 16, 2017
Kunio Muramatsu: Green Water (1983)
I so had another post in mind for today, but Kunio Muramatsu’s Green Water spoke to me and said: “hold that powder…
August 11, 2017
Katsutoshi Morizono: 4:17 p.m. (1985)
There’s an appeal to Katsutoshi Morizono’s 4:17 p.m. that can only be heightened, or fully appreciated, during summer, our current time of…
August 9, 2017
Hajime Mizoguchi: Halfinch Dessert (1986)
These are the things that surprise sometimes. I went into researching some background story behind Hajime Mizoguchi’s deeply affecting Halfinch Dessert and…
August 4, 2017
Alain Chamfort: Amour, Année Zéro
I almost hate myself for sharing this. It’s like eating a slice of sublime dark chocolate cake, followed by a full…
August 2, 2017
Motohiko Hamase: #Notes Of Forestry (1988)
What’s with Japanese session bass players? Yoshio Suzuki, Tsugutoshi Goto, Hirobumi Suzuki, etc. and now Motohiko Hamase, all at one point or…
July 28, 2017
Ritmia: Forse Il Mare (1986)
Nothing makes one cringe more than when someone tries to “modernize” traditional music. The issue isn’t with modernization but with trying to…
July 26, 2017
Mike Francis: Let’s Not Talk About It (1984)
Now this, this right here, is the promised boogie wonderland. The late Michele Francesco Puccioni’s (aka Mike Francis) 1984 debut is that…
July 21, 2017
Kenji Omura: Gaijin Heaven (1983)
Power can manifest itself in many ways. Power isn’t always in the density of something but in the lightness of it. Kenji…
July 19, 2017